Well, it's a team game.
If one team can't cover their holes, more fool them.
Make the holes smaller, you gear more towards a team with one superstar player, especially a defender will most likely win.

How about crowding the zone? should we change settings so that can't happen anymore?
Grinding down the middle to take the zone at the beginning? That's a bit low isn't it? Bring in Fat Cycles.
Closing I read a topic on till it got boring. Closers are Noobs!

My advice is deal with holes. Use a sweeper to help you. Or make sure they're covered.
If you're a single defender against three attackers, it's your team who has let you down, not the guy who cycled through the hole the defence was unable to cover.

its up to the honor of the attacker - if they are honorable they will not hole/gank

nonsense. I believe most of the ppl don't hole to open a gate for their teamates - they just die and leave a hole, that's life. If you complain about holing, set up a second defense line.
If I see a hole I use it. It doesn't matter, if it is a hole made for me or if it is hole from someone who died.

Well spoken PTA. I remember when I holed Gluggsel a couple of days ago and he shoutet something like "You have no honour!". Well, I think if you're alone against 2 or more attackers and you get holed, your team has failed.

It depends if i hole or not. Like super duck, i hole them if they def very boring but normally i don't. Not because of honor or sth, just cause i love to fight . And I love it to shout always "holes are for noobs", "/me is a noob" (espacially when rico is there, cause he annoys everytime . )